Published : 12 Oct 2025, 10:26 PM
Updated : 21 Aug 2026, 02:35 PM
A member of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has been injured after a mine exploded while he was part of a patrol in the Bangladesh-Myanmar border area in Bandarban.
The incident occurred in Naikhongchhari’s Tambru area around 12:30pm on Sunday, according to Col Mohiuddin Ahmed, sector commander of the BGB Ramu unit.
The injured was identified as Lance Naik Akhtar Hossain of the BGB Cox’s Bazar Battalion (BGB-34). He has been admitted to the Ramu Combined Military Hospital for treatment.
Akhtar was assigned to the Reju Amtoli BOP at the Myanmar border. He has lost a foot up to the ankle in the blast and the other is seriously injured.
Bangladeshis have previously been injured by landmines planted at the border by the Arakan Army insurgent group amid ongoing conflict in Myanmar.
On Apr 6, a Bangladeshi man lost a foot in a landmine explosion near the Myanmar border in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf Upazila. A youth lost his foot in a landmine explosion near the Naikhongchhari border on Jun 22.
A wild elephant was also seriously injured in a landmine blast in Naikhongchhari on Aug 11. The elephant lost a foot up to the ankle.
